If you want to see how Beck comes to the conclusion that Mitt Romney is a modern-day George Washington who is being guided by God, you can go here. The method is not reasonably called “justification”. He goes on to disown America here; after all, although Beck is an arch-patriot, his patriotism is conditional upon America doing what Beck want’s America to do, and Americans acting in the manner Beck wants them to act, which is exactly the kind of patriotism you would expect from the religious right.

On a slightly different note, Beck has also weighed in on the Petraeus “scandal”, claiming that it is a conspiracy to discredit the military. Obama is behind it, of course. The motivation is less clear.

Finally, for something really breathtakingly stupid, you can see Beck and Marco Rubio try to understand and explain the age of the earth here.

At least, one might think, he showed a glimpse of sanity when he went after Alex Jones after the latter had revealed how crazy he actually is in a by now famous discussion with Piers Morgan. With a straight face, Beck said – referencing InfoWars – that “you have to be careful of who you get your news from” because “their agenda makes a difference.” In addition, Jones was only on the show with Morgan to make conservatives look bad – it’s all part of the conspiracy. A few days later, Beck seems to have decided that he could not be outdone by Jones when it comes to paranoia, and decided to share with his audience his thoughts on the brewing civil war in America.

This one should be read in light of Beck's recent attempt to denounce conspiracy theorists. In the same vein, Beck apparently thinks it is reasonable to believe that John Brennan has converted to Islam. But of course, Beck himself is only "asking questions", exactly like a true conspiracy theorist never would.

Beck's latest efforts have primarily been concerned with conspiracy theory mongering, making whale.to seem almost pale by comparison (well, no - whale.to doesn't really pale in comparison). Here, for instance, is his rather remarkable "system x" conspiracy, which pretty much says that system x is upon us and will destroy freedom as we know it. It is unclear what exactly system x is, but it'll sure destroy freedom, since to paranoid maniacs like Beck, that's what it's all about.

Like it or not, he called the "Arab Spring" for what it has turned out to be. Unless you think that endemic sex assault is "liberation". His final shows on Fox about the "Arab Spring" were themed "World on Fire" and he was astoundingly accurate about what was to come, especially in light of the gush-fest that emanated from CNN, MSDNC, and the usual gaggle of CFR cronies who infest the "official" policy discussions on C-Span. Beck predicted that the entire region would melt into chaos soon after the first "uprising" in Tunisia. How did Noam Chomsky do? (Or was he too busy with George Soros trying to rustle up some spare organs from China that aren't infected with Hepatitis?)

It is, of course, not only the Boston bombing that is part of a government conspiracy. Here he attempts to show that the Houston airport shooting is a set-up (his evidence seems to be that he can "guarantee you" that it is). (And here he wonders whether the shooter ever attended any occupy wall-street event.

As for the putative IRS scandal, Beck has tried to argue that it shows that America is becoming worse than Nazi Germany and is headed toward being the most evil nation in history, since it is just a small step now before the totalitarian regime will begin rounding up Tea Party members (the "new civil rights movement") and put them in concentration camps. And the downward trend appears to be more or less worldwide. After all, as Beck so convincingly argues, "whether we know it or not" the world is engaged in Moloch/Baal worship, though he doesn't consider the most obvious explanation for why this is not general knowledge. Here he warns that we are "at the end", citing the book of Mormons.

Here he tries to make a claim that his own website, The Blaze, debunked months ago. It probably doesn’t matter.

Other than that, Beck has been busy with some reorganizing and imposing new guidelines and rules various places. You may want to see his reasons for banning video games in his household. He has also declared that if anyone employed in his company does anything motivated by concerns over global warming they’re fired. It’s all about freedom, you see.

Is it just us, or is Beck getting increasingly over-the-top delusional? Not that he was particularly well hinged, but the last few months has witnessed such an onslaught of hyperbolic, internally inconsistent ranting that it tops most of the shit he has done before. We won’t go into detail, but among the things that Beck describes as “simple facts” is the claim that Obama can get away with murder because he is likeable and he is black; that’s why the “George Soroses of the world” chose him for president (he wasn’t elected by the people, i.e. Beck). But he is really evil. According to Beck both Obama and Christie would totally bomb America if it served their purposes. Evidence? Hah. But in the world of Beck Obama has already started his Marxist revolution, and is just about to kill millions. And personally, Beck can’t take any more of dictator Obama’s “Marxist propaganda bullcrap”; indeed Obama has “all the earmarks” of a Marxist dictator, which is what wingnuts like Beck say when they mean “I disagree with his policies”.

Here he reveals the progressive dishwasher, cursive handwriting conspiracy theories, emphasizing that failing to teach children cursive writing in this digitalized age ”enslaves children”. The causal mechanism is a bit mushy, but then again Beck seems to think yelling at people until they comply is equivalent to rational persuasion (and is the technique he recommends to parents so that they can convince their kids that their liberties and rights come from God; he has repeatedly emphasized that the laws of the US come from God and nowhere else, for instance).

It’s all the usual stuff, really. According to Beck, people who call Ted Cruz and Mike Lee extremists are Nazis, because, well, because Beck doesn’t like that (also here). Indeed, according to Beck Cruz “may be our Reagan” (although Beck is presumably here thinking about the wingnut caricature of Reagan, not the real guy, whose politics would be far to the left of communism as far as Beck is concerned). Then there are the usual conspiracies – Here is his newest NFL conspiracy, for instance (surrounding the Redskins, of course). And over-the-top Obama rants - Here is his claim that Obama is responsible for the murder of a family. In China. By a guy who doesn’t speak English. Apparently because, in Beck’s mind, he has been urged on by Obama’s alleged talk of class warfare, of which Beck could cite no examples. In China. Furthermore, he has tried on (we’ve encountered it before) the line that Obamacare is a violation of the separation of church and state, as opposed, it seems, to forced participation in prayers in public schools.

Or creationism. According to Beck, and memorably so, science guy Bill Nye is to creationists as the Catholic church was to Galileo. So, one might think, is reality.

Indeed, Beck’s toying with fundie religious crankery is rather bizarre. He has, for instance, claimed that he thinks demonic forces are the reason cable providers are refusing to host his show. Because, one thinks, it is because his show is really all religious. Or Messianic. One can, indeed, only wonder why Beck is sometimes accused of delusions of grandeur.